Welcome to the Ultimate Eurovision Experience: Radio International which is a three hour radio/web-TV show broadcast to the many Eurovision fans around the World hosted by JP and his International Team. The show airs every Wednesday from the studios of RTV Katwijk in the Netherlands starting at 2000 - 2300 hours CET and is in English. The show also airs on Malta's Galaxy 105 and Castlepoint FM in the UK on different days. For details check below.

2013-01-28

Join us this Wednesday 30 January 2013, 8-11pm CET for a special edition of Eurovision Radio International taking a look at the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2013 contestants that are competing this coming weekend in Malta out of which the winner will represent the islands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden next May. Also there are some nice highlights from previous years of the Maltese national finals to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Join Radio International on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 from 2000 - 2300 hours CET, via the website or on FM. Radio International is available live via www.radiointernational.tv and on FM 106.8 and Digital Cabel Channel 781 in parts of the Netherlands. Should you not be able to listen live, the show will appear in the Programme’s Show Archive a few hours after it’s airing on the radio.

Happy Eurovisioning
JP and the Team in the Tower of Eurovision Power.
www.radiointernational.tv

2013-01-24

Radio International interviewed Natalia Barbu from Moldova who represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 reaching Number 10 with the song "Fight". The interview was done at the Eurovision Live Concert 2012 in Setubal, Portugal organised by OGAE Portugal.

Ralph Siegel, the composer of Germany's victory with Nicole "Ein bisschen Frieden" which won for Germany the Eurovision SongContest 1982.

Below you will find the outline of the day:

1300 hours
Record Fair & Meet and Greet. The Record Fair is scheduled to close at 1900 hours.

1500 hours
Start of the Official Programme.

A review of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 and a look ahead to the
upcoming event in Malmoe, Sweden. Highlights of some of the national
finals 2013 will be shown and discussed.

Then there is the traditional CoverSongContest which is a Karaoke
Eurovision Song Contest where interested fans can be that Eurovision
Star they always wanted to be and also sind his/her favourite Eurovision
Tune.

The event will fade out with another great hightlight and that is the
famous Eurovision Disco with DJ Ohrmeister (who is everywhere) :)

Tickets are available from now on and cost
EURO 35 for members of the OGAE Network
EURO 40 for Non-Members

You can order your tickets via an email to OGAE Germany President Klaus
Woryna (
president@ogae.de) and also do your payment to the account of
OGAE Germany stating "OGAE Clubtreffen 2012 - Your Name".

2013-01-19

JP started to create this blog to supplement the radio show Eurovision Radio International which airs every Wednesday from 2000 - 2300 hours CET. Details are available on the show webpage.

In 2013, as everybody now knows, the Eurovision Song Contest comes from Malmoe in Sweden on May 14, 16 & 18 and the Team of Radio International will be there for conducting Interviews and video reports which we will also publish in this blog. Watch out for it and return frequently.

On 19 February 2012 a concert took place in Almere, The Netherlands
featuring many of the artists that submitted an entry to the Dutch
national final but were rejected. Some of the artists got together and
organised a concert so that at least some people could enjoy their song
being performed in front of an audience.

The show was hosted by Marga "Marcha" Bult who in 1987 represented the Netherlands with "Rechtop in de wind" reaching Number 5.

Dutch
representative in 1989, Justine Pelmelay also made a guest appearance
and performed her entry "Blijf zoals je bent" reaching Number 15.

Also
on the guest list was 2012 entrant but also 1973 Dutch representative
to the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 - Ben Cramer who represented the
Netherlands with the song "De oude Musikant".

The Eurovision
Song Contest 1973 was staged in the Grand Theatre of Luxembourg City
with the participation of 17 countries. The Host Country Luxembourg
became again the winner in 1973 with Anne Marie David and the song
fabulous "Tu Te Reconnaitras".

The Netherlands were represented by Ben Cramer with the song "De oude muzikant"
which reached Number 14. Some 31 years later - in 2012, Ben Cramer
wanted to represent the Netherlands once again at the Eurovision Song
Contest and had submitted a song to TROS (Dutch TV Company responsible
for matters of Eurovision in the Netherlands) who regretably rejected
his application. Soon after that all the artists that were rejected by
the TROS held a special concert in the Netherlands so that the songs
were not produced for nothing.

Former Eurovision particpant Justine
Pelmelay (Netherlands 1989) was guest and Marga "Marcha" Bult was the
host of the evening. Marcha represented the Netherlands back in 1987
coming 5th with "Rechtop in de wind". And of course Ben Cramer performed his rendition of the Dutch entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973: "De oude muzikant".
Radio International had the big pleasure to meet and interview Ben in
the canteen backstage of the venue.

OGAE Portugal with close cooperation of the Municipality of Setubal in
Portugal and many spnsors - held their annual Eurovision Live Concert in
the Auditorium of Jose Alfonso in the heart of Setubal. A large number
of national (Portuguese) and international artists were performing on
stage their Eurovision entries including two Eurovision Winners namely
Niamh Kavanagh and Katrina of Katrina and the Waves.

The concert
started off at 2100 hours under open sky and the Team of Radio
International were present to interview some of the performers.

In
this clip see the interview of Simone de Oliveira who represented
Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contests of 1965 & 1969. Enjoy!

2013-01-18

On Saturday, 15 December 2012 the National Final of
Switzerland took place to select the entry of Switzerland at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmoe, Swede in May 2013. The show was
produced for the third time in a row in the Bodensee Arena of
Kreuzlingen which is a bordering town with Germany close to Konstanz.

Nine acts competed for the ticket to Malmoe and televoting only decided,
although a Pan European Panel was present during the show consisting of
amongst others German comedian Hella von Sinnen who herself is a huge
fan of the Eurovision Song Contest.

During the phone calls were counted, last year's Winner of the Swiss
National Final - SINPLUS presented to the audience and the viewers their
latest single lifted from the ablum DISINFORMATION. The song is called
"Turn on the lights" and follows "Unbreakable" which unfortunately, just
failed to qualify Switzerland for the Grand Final of the Eurovision
Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Sven Epiney presented "Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow" for the third time
in a row. He is also the commentator at the Eurovision Song Contest for
Swiss TV.

The Winners of the national selection 2013 is die Heilsarmee with the song "You and me". Below is the chart of the results.